This world is so wide that, even if you flitted around and around it, you would never reach the end of it. This blog is a collage of more or less literary and humorous, outlandish or sometimes even serious glimpses at this great wide world.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Old Welsh Song

I take with me where I go a pen and a golden bowl;Poet and beggar step in my shoes, or a prince in a purple shawl.I bring with me when I return to the house that my father's hands madeA crooning bird on a crystal bough and, o, a sad, sad word!

Henry Treece/Joan Baez triviaBaptism includes a total of four poems by Treece (1911-1966). In addition to "Old Welsh Song," these are "Who Murdered the Minutes," "Oh, Little Child" and "The Magic Wood." J.B. must have really liked this guy's poems.